Ian McDonald quotes
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“Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.”
-- Ian McDonaldSource : Ian McDonald (2007). “Brasyl”
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“There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.”
-- Ian McDonaldSource : Ian McDonald (2007). “River of Gods”, Pyr Books
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“He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.”
-- Ian McDonaldSource : Ian McDonald (2010). “The Dervish House”, p.160, Hachette UK
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“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.”
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“The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.”
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“In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.”
-- Ian McDonaldSource : Ian McDonald (2009). “Cyberabad Days”, p.89, Hachette UK
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“Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)”
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“Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.”
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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
Source : Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).
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“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”
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Source : Ben Macintyre (2010). “Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II”, p.239, A&C Black
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